self-awareness Quotes

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.